LSC-O’s Criminal Justice Society Inducts New Members

The Criminal Justice Society of Lamar State College-Orange held an induction ceremony on April 26, 2016 at the Brown Estate in Orange, Texas. The yearly ceremony to present new members included a dinner and keynote speaker, the Honorable Courtney Arkeen, Judge of the 18th District Court.

Judge Arkeen, first appointed by Governor Rick Perry in 2011 and re-elected in 2012, is the first female and first Republican District Judge in Orange county, Texas and surrounding counties. A graduate of Orangefield High School in 1994 and the University of Texas-Austin in 1997, Judge Arkeen attended the University of Houston Law Center graduating with her juris-doctorate law degree in 1999.